7:30 PM - Quad City Playwrights' FestivalThe 11th annual Quad City Playwrights' Festival will present four 10-minute plays selected out of entries submitted by students and adults from the local communitiesBergendoff Hall

ACTL

Greetings from the Center for Teaching & Learning.

I hope that you will be able to take some time soon to reflect on the academic year that is about to come to an end. Of course I hope that reflection will include many, many successes that you have enjoyed this past year in your teaching and in your student's learning!

For the last ACTL newsletter of the year, I would like to take my cue from Ellen Hay and look to the future. If you were not able to attend last Friday's conversation, perhaps you have had a chance to read and reflect on some of the questions she posed in last week's newsletter. I'm sure that, like me, you will find them thought-provoking.

Among the many important questions she poses, several stand out as particularly relevant to me as director of ACTL:

What do we expect of our students and how can we articulate those expectations?

How do we build learning experiences that demonstrate value?

What do we as faculty need to learn in the next decade in order to continue offering an outstanding education?

How can we work as a college community to facilitate student learning and development?